Roll

Handgloves

Take a picture and post in your Typeface folder on Google Drive. Share & crit.

Movie Title

Share briefs and discuss. Draft 1 due next Tuesday.

Type Tool Tutorial

Links to TT Manual PDF and educational version.

Some additional resources.

Type Tool

PDF manual (link on Resources page).

Additional help (in Google Drive).

Some Basics

1. File > New
2. File > Font Info…
   1. Family name: Basic
   2. Weight: Normal
3. Click “Build Names”
4. Key Dimensions: Can change these later. Can also be adjusted manually in glyph window (will update across all glyphs).
5. Toolbar items.
6. View menu
7. Contour menu
8. Tools > Customize

Importing Scans: Scan > Photoshop > Type Tool

Photoshop

1. Download this sample sketch (you’ll do this with your own sketches, later).
2. Crop to glyph.
3. Image > Image Size…
4. Keep proportional (lock) on.
5. 725 pixels height (let PS calculate width).
6. Filter > Gaussian Blur. Adjust to taste.
7. Layers > New Adjustment Layer > Contrast and Brightness. Adjust to taste.
8. File > Save As… > N YourLastName.png.
9. Upload to the Type Tool Tutorial folder.

Type Tool

1. Tools > Background > Create.
2. Tools > Background > Move and Resize.
3. Click any tool in the toolbar to leave background editing mode.

Some Basic Contours

See handout (also, PDFs in Type Project folder).

When done, save your TT file as “Basic Contours YourLastname” and upload it to the same Type Tool Tutorial folder in Google Drive.

Printmaking

Overview and scheduling.